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MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011: The Global Partnership for Development - Time to Deliver
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: September 2011 ISBN: 9789211012453 Pages: 70 Price: $15.00
In addition to addressing short-term risks, policymakers have to meet the challenge of rebalancing the region’s economies in favour of domestic and regional investment and consumption. While wide development gaps provide significant headroom for expanding domestic demand, deepening regional economic cooperation is also critical to sustain dynamism in coming years. Some of the areas needing policy attention are enhancement of connectivity between markets and peoples through improved transport linkages, regional institution-building, streamlined transport and trade facilitation and progress towards a regional energy framework. The region’s least developed countries have not been able to enjoy the emerging opportunities offered by expanding markets and strengthened connectivity owing to their lack of productive capacity. Besides putting in place a supportive national policy framework, they need to be assisted in building productive capacities by their development partners. The 2011 edition of the oldest and most comprehensive annual review of development in this vast and diverse region, the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific assesses the critical issues, policy challenges and risks that the region faces in coming months and outlines the elements of a policy agenda for sustaining dynamism and inclusive development for an Asia-Pacific century.
“The 2011 Survey ... aims to help ESCAP economies to implement policies that will protect their hard-won development gains and ensure that progress at the aggregate level translates into far more rapid improvements in the lives of the poor and vulnerable.”
New ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Significant gaps remain in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, access to new technologies and affordable essential medicines. This Report monitors the progress made in achieving the targets of MDG 8, including continued attention to the impact of the global crisis on meeting the targets set under MDG 8 and embedding any new commitments resulting from the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 65th session of the General Assembly on the MDGs into the monitoring process. Policy coherence is a central theme of the 2011 issue of the Report, which provides recommendations to all major stakeholders on how to address the remaining implementation gaps.
The economies of Asia and the Pacific recovered strongly in 2010 from the depths of the “Great Recession” of 2008/09 but they face fresh challenges in 2011. These include the return of food and fuel crises that are threatening hard-won development gains, sluggish recovery in the advanced economies, and a deluge of shortterm capital flows that in turn is leading to volatility in capital markets, the build-up of asset bubbles and the appreciation of exchange rates. Furthermore, the devastation wrought by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan provides another stark reminder of the region’s vulnerability to natural disasters. These challenges pose significant downside risks to an otherwise robust growth outlook as the region emerges as the growth pole of the global economy.
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Connectivity in the Region and Productive Capacity in Least Developed Countries
BAN Ki-moon Secretary-General of the United Nations
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2011: Sustaining Recovery and Dynamism for Inclusive Development - Connectivity in the Region and Productive Capacity in Least Developed Countries
This flagship publication of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is the oldest and most comprehensive annual review of economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific. It outlines policies to sustain dynamic growth and make it inclusive, such as boosting internal demand, enhancing connectivity to create a seamless and region-wide market, and building productive capacities in the least developed countries. This 2011 Survey assesses the critical issues, policy challenges and risks that the region faces in coming months. It outlines the elements of a policy agenda for sustaining dynamism and inclusive development for an Asia-Pacific century.
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9789211206227 Pages: 260 Price: $85.00
USD $85 ISBN 978-92-1-120622-7 United Nations publication Printed in Bangkok April 2011 - 2,860
Economic Report on Africa 2011: Governing Development in Africa - The Role of the State in Economic Transfomation
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Many African economies are still characterized by a heavy reliance on the primary sector, high vulnerability to external shocks, jobless growth and slow progress towards social development. It is essential for African countries to promote economic diversification and structural transformation as a means to accelerate and sustain broad-based and shared high-employment-generating growth. This Report highlights that failure of earlier state-led and market-driven approaches to promoting economic transformation points to the need for fostering long-term investment, rapid and sustained economic growth, equity and social development within inclusive, transparent and comprehensive development frameworks.
Economic and Social Studies
Towards Human Resilience: Sustaining MDG Progress in an Age of Economic Uncertainty The recent global economic crisis has reinforced concerns about the impact of financial and economic shocks on human development. The increasing frequency of such shocks raises questions about their systemic character and the ability of developing countries to withstand the negative impacts of economic uncertainty. Indeed, vulnerability to macro-level shocks has the potential of significantly slowing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. This Report addresses essential questions about economic vulnerability and resilience. Most significantly, it explores how macro-economic crises affect vulnerable economies, what structural characteristics make economies susceptible to the harmful effects of such shocks, and what policies can help developing economies build resilience in the face of unpredictable economic change.
Over the last several years, the United Nations has become a trailblazer in promoting corporate responsibility. "In the 11 years since its launch, the United Nations Global Compact has been at the forefront of the UN’s effort to make the private sector a critical actor in advancing sustainability," UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon says in the 2011 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. This publication offers insights on political as well as sustainability issues. Exemplary entrepreneurial commitments can foster and create incentives for other companies. To guide companies along this road, they need a blueprint for corporate sustainability. This is the focal topic of the new Global Compact International Yearbook.
Publisher: United Nations Global Compact Office Publication Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9783981354010 Pages: 196 Price: $30.00
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: September 2011 ISBN: 9789211251166 Pages: 250 Price: $40.00
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Global Compact International Yearbook 2011
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Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile Global Markets
This publication is very timely as world leaders deliberate the causes of the latest bouts of food price volatility and search for solutions that address the recent velocity of financial, economic, political, demographic, and climatic changes. As a collection compiled from a diverse group of economists, analysts, traders, institutions and policy formulators — comprising multiple methodologies and viewpoints — this book exposes the impact of volatility on global food security, with particular focus on the world's most vulnerable people.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Publication Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9789251068038 Pages: 616 Price: $85.00
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Publication Date: September 2011 ISBN: 9789211263336 Pages: 276 Price: $35.00
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Survey of Economic and Social Developments in Western Asia 2009-2010
This year's Survey looks at the effect that the global financial crisis has had on economies and social development in the Western Asia region. The Survey shows that while some economies have weathered the global recession well, the impact on others has been significant. It is possible that the negative economic and social consequences of the crisis on employment, poverty, health, education, gender equality and growth will be felt for some time. The 2011 revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other countires are unprecedented in their dynamics. The consequences of these changes will only become apparent as events unfold. A new model of economic development in the region is emerging and it is critical that it responds to the aspirations of the people who have led these revolutions.
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crises on International Migration: Lessons Learned
The current global economic crisis is impacting migration patterns and processes around the world. A reduction in migration flows globally has been reported. Migrant workers are laid off, and while some return home, others stay. How to respond to these migration impacts poses challenges for policymakers in both countries of origin and destination. Against this background, this Report considers the lessons for migration policy to be learned from the major financial crises of the 20h century, namely the Great Depression (1930s), the oil crisis (1973), the Asian financial crisis (1997-1999), the financial crisis in Russia (1998), and the Latin American financial crisis (1998-2002). As the impact of previous crises on migrants and migration has been uneven and unequal across countries and regions, depending on a range of factors, this Report draws out the wider lessons for policy that can be learned from previous responses to economic crises.
Economic Development in Africa Report 2011: Fostering Industrial Development in Africa in the New Global Environment
This Report examines the status of industrial development in Africa with a focus on the identification of "stylized facts" associated with African manufacturing. It also provides an analysis of past attempts at promoting industrial development in the region and the lessons learned from these experiences. Furthermore, it offers policy recommendations on how to foster industrial development in Africa in the new global environment characterized by changing international trade rules, growing influence of industrial powers from the South, the internationalization of production, and increasing concerns about climate change. The Report argues that a new industrial policy is needed to induce structural transformation and engender development in African economies.
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: September 2011 ISBN: 9789211283440 Pages: 110 Price: $23.00
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Economic and Social Studies
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Publishers: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) / United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Publicaton Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9789211128253 Pages: 124 Price: $30.00
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Establishing a Resource-circulating Society in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
This publication addresses the issues associated with sustainable resource-circulating societies. It focuses on Asia, where both population growth and economic growth are increasingly prominent in the global context. The volume is divided into five chapters that cover topics related to technological or socioeconomic issues or a combination of both. It provides policymakers, business leaders, and experts in the field with comprehensive knowledge concerning future visions, initiatives, and practical applications in the promotion of a sustainable resource-circulating society in Asia.
Publisher: United Nations University (UNU) Publication Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9789280811827 Price: $37.00
Publisher: Internal Organization for Migration (IOM) Publication Date: September 2011 ISBN: 9789211036695 Pages: 48 Price: $16.00
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